WDLabs has announced the availability of the WD PiDrive 314GB, a storage device designed specifically to provide the Raspberry Pi community with low-power USB operation, affordability, reliability and ease of integration. This acts as a very attractive alternative to SD cards and USB drives that either offer to little in the way of storage capacity or consumer a considerable amount of power.
WDLabs has announced the availability of the WD PiDrive 314GB, a storage device designed specifically to provide the Raspberry Pi community with low-power USB operation, affordability, reliability and ease of integration. This acts as a very attractive alternative to SD cards and USB drives that either offer to little in the way of storage capacity or consumer a considerable amount of power.
The WD PiDrive 314GB device leverages the company's high-volume 500GB platform and is customized specifically for Raspberry Pi, including making the drive's magnetic recording and electrical system operating set-points to align with Raspberry Pi's USB data and power design. WD indicates that this will help reduce the electrical power load of the hard drive on Raspberry Pi, though still sustaining enough performance to boast the maximum USB data transfer rate.
WD adds that WDLabs and the author of BerryBoot have built a special version of BerryBoot for PiDrive device customers. This includes software applications that feature the use of mass-storage devices with Raspberry Pi. In addition, numerous operating systems and software applications can be stored on the WD PiDrive HDD: when the system boots-up, users can quickly and easily select the OS from the BerryBoot menu.
Compatibility, Price and Availability
Backed by a two-year warranty, the WD PiDrive 314GB HDD is compatible with all WD PiDrive cables, cable kits and WD PiDrive enclosures with a price of $45.81 USD; however, WD currently has a limited-time discount of 31.4% ($31.42).
Give yourself a slice of Pi with the custom-engineered WD PiDrive 314GB! from WD Store.
